Ellinor D’Melon

Violin

Biography

Ellinor D’Melon was born to Cuban parents in Jamaica and started to learn the violin at the age of two, giving her first recital when just three years of age. Still only eighteen, she has performed widely, including under the baton of respected maestros including, among others, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Spivakov, Jaime Martin, and Zakhar Bron. Concert engagements have taken her to many prestigious concert halls, such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, National Auditorium in Madrid, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Cologne Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zurich, Sala Verdi Milano, Baltic Hall in Gdansk, and many others.

Ellinor has participated in the Verbier, Gstaad and Schlesswig-Holstein Music Festivals, as well as Musical Olympus, Interlarken Classics and Wieniawski Festivals among others.

Most recently she performed the Bach Double Concerto alongside Anne Sophie Mutter, and with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in Sweden with Jaime Martin, where she returns in the 2018/19 season for a performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Other upcoming season highlights include her French premiere alongside the orchestra of Opéra de Massy and Constantin Rouits, Sofia Philharmonic, again with Brahms, and Cadaques Orchestra in Barcelona’s prestigious Palau de la Música.

Since 2011 Ellinor studies at the Reina Sofia School of Music with Professor Zakhar Bron, where she holds the Helena Revoredo and Albeniz Foundation Scholarships, and joined the Zakhar Bron Academy in 2013.

Her recent competition successes have included taking 1st Prize in the ‘Debut Berlin’ international competition (2017, Berlin Philharmonie), 1st Prize and special award for Best Interpretation of Contemporary Russian Piece in the VIII Novosibirsk International Competition (2016, Russia), The “Virtuoso Award” at the 2nd Manhattan International Competition (2017, USA), and the 1st Prize in the International Wieniawski Competition for Young Violinists (2012, Poland).

Ellinor plays on a Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini Violin from 1743 on a kind loan from an anonymous donor from London.

(As of September 1st, 2018)

Recent News

IMG Artists is delighted to have signed Jamaican violinist Ellinor D'Melon, who turned 17 this December, for General Management. Ellinor will be managed by Artist Manager Maarit Kangron out of the company's London office. Ellinor said: "It is a great privilege for me...

Reviews

“She has reached the technique which leaves the audience massively impressed and she is enjoying performing the most difficult pieces…”